The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation…. What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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